Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16GB DDR3 1866MHz Memory Kit Review

The Test System

Before we take a look at the performance numbers, let’s take a brief look at the test system that was used. All testing was done using a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running.

Intel Core i7 4770k Quad-Core Haswell CPU

Stock Socket 1150 CPU Cooler

16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 1866MHz Memory

GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H Motherboard

EVGA GTX 570 Classified Video Card

2x 120GB Samsung 840 Pro SATA III 6Gb/s SSD’s in RAID 0

Thermaltake Pure Power 680w Power Supply

Windows 7 Professional Operating System

Intel Z87/LGA1150 Platform

The Intel Z87 platform that we used to test these memory modules was running the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H motherboard with BIOS version F7 that came out on 08/05/2013. The processor used, the Intel Core i7 4770k, was just using the stock frequency of 3.5GHz with turbo boost enabled, which can boost it up to 3.9GHz.

Up next I will run a couple benchmarks against these modules to see how well they perform!

Go to any PC hardware website and you’ll see that 16GB doesn’t make a different in games. Frequency wise you can get up to 20% more performance.

Travis

I bought an 8G kit to test. On a Asus Croshair v Formula board and 4ghz 8 core AMD and Sapphire 7870 card these will run excellent at 8-8-8-22 1T 1866mhz timings. Boots insane fast. No latency or lag in any games and runs rock solid stable…

DiscaL

What’s upsetting is that Corsair doesn’t state the “Pro 1866 (2 x 8GB Pack)” through their http://www.corsair.com/en/memory-finder as being compatible with any AMD CPUs. I was so Hell-bent on going AMD, but I received my RAMs yesterday and even the packaging only states “Intel i7 & i5” which is very annoying … but the best part is that I have yet to buy a CPU + MOBO!

I purchased the grey ones to go with a GA-990-FXA UD3 MOBO paired with an AMD FX-9590 CPU in mind … Help/Recommendations anyone?

Modo

Got them with an AMD FX 6300 and an Sabertooth 990FX Rev2.0. was going with them for a nearly similar OC as here without any voltage increases and i got them to 2000Mhz @ 9-9-9-25-36 1T all stable till this moment! No Issues with an AMD here, very nice and easy to OC all that components! Hoped that helped a bit 😉